INSOLVENCY
‘INSOLVENCY. The condition of a person who is insolvent; inability to pay one’s debts; lack of means to pay one’s debts. Such a relative condition of a man’s assets and Habilities that the former, if all made imm...
Terms beginning with "I" (356 total)
Inspectors, 32 Misc. Rep
584, 67 N. Y. Supp. 236; Opinion of Justices, 68 Me. 589.
INSPECTORSHIP, DEED OF. In Eng
lish law. An instrument entered into between an insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one ‘or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such Insolvent’s affairs on behalf of the creditors.
INSPEXIMUS
Lat. In old English law. We have Inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 530.
Inst
8, 6 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called amita mazima. Id. 38, 10, 10, 17. Called, in Bracton, abamita magna. Bract. fol. 68d. 4, 8, pr.; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 4, tit. 8, So called from noze, the offense or injury com mitted. Inst....
Inst., 1, 2,3. Justinian’s Inst
lib. 1, tit. 2, § 3.
INSTANCE
of public records. and documents: or of the books and papers of his opponent in an action, for the purpose of better preparing his own case for trial. ; —Inuspection laws. Laws authorizing and directing the inspection ...
INSTITOR
Lat. In the civil law. A clerk in a store; an agent.
INSTITUTES
INSTIGATION. Incitation; urging; 80 licitation. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to commit some crime or to commence a suit. State v. Fraker, 148 Mo. 143, 49 S. W. 1017.
INSTITUTIO HAZREDIS
gether from the ancient reports and Year Books, but greatly defective in method. It is usually cited by the name of “Co. Litt.,”’ or as **1 Inst.”” The second volume is a comment u on old acts of parliament, wi...
INSTITUTIO HZREDIS
Lat. In Ro man law. The appointment of the hAres in the will. It corresponds very nearly to the nomination of an executor in English law. Without such an appolntment the will was vuid at law, but the pretor (é. e., equi...
INSTITUTIONES
Lat. Works containing the elements of any science; institutions or institutes. One of Justinian’s principal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so entitled. See IN-
INSTRUMENTA
Lat. That kind of evidence which consists of writings not under seal; as court-rolls, accounts, and the like. 3 Co. Litt. 487.
INSULA
Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin,
INSUPER
Lat. Moreover; above. l
INSURANCE
real interest, the contract would be a mere wager policy. on gations on the part of the other contracting party; to this class belong policies of contract credit and title insurance. Cowles y. Guaranty property resulti...
Insurance Co
y. Edwards, 74 Ga. 230.—Bad title. One which conveys no property to the urchaser of the estate; one which is so radicaly defective that it is not marketable, and hence such that a purchaser cannot be legally compelled ...
Insurance Co. V. Keiron, 27 Til
503; Insurance Co. v. Kupfer, 28 Il. 3832, Sl Am. Dec. 284; Lackey vy. Miller, 61 N. C. 26.
Insurance Co., 103 Mass
401, 4 Am. Rep. 567.
INSURANOB
become members of the association and contribute either cash or assessable premium notes, or both, to a common fund, out of which each is entitled to indemnity in case of loss. My-
INTEGER
Lat. Whole; untouched. Res integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent, Comm. 177.
INTENDANT
accomplices, who were called “outparters,” brought in to them from the borders of Scotland. Spelman; Cowell tng to the cabinet ministers or secretaries of the various departments of the United States government, as,...
INTENDED TO BE RECORDED. This
phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylvania, it has been construed to be a covenant, on the...
INTENT
i. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the mind or will towards a particular objec...
Intentional fraud
Fraud disclosed by matters of fact, as distinguished from constructive fraud or fraud in law. McKibbin v. Martin, 64 Pa. 356, 3 Am. Rep. 588; Cook v. Burnham, 3
INTER
Lat. Among; between.
INTER CANEM ET LUPUM
A term applied in the civil law to clauses of disinheritance in a will. Inst. 2, 13, 1; (lat. Between the dog and the wolf.) The twilight ; because then the dog seeks his rest, and the wolf his prey. 8 Inst. 63.
INTER CONJUNCTAS PERSONAS
Between conjunct persons. By the act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Con...
INTER CZTEROS
Intentio csseca mala. A blind or obscure meaning is bad or ineffectual. 2 Bulst. 17v. Said of a testator’s intention.
INTER FAUCES TERRZ
(Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands,
INTER QUATUOR PARIETES. Be
tween four walls. Fileta, lib. 6, c. 55, § 4.
INTER SE, INTER SESE
selves. Story, Partn. § 405.
INTER VIRUM ET UXOREM
tween husband and wife.
INTERCALARE
Lat. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to introduce a day or month into the calendar; to intercalate. Dig. 50, 16, 98, pr.
INTERCEDERE
Lat. In the civil law. To become bound for another’s debt.
INTERDICT
property passes by conveyance, the transa’ tion is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise. So an ordinary gift from one person to another is called a “gift inter vivos,” to di...
INTERDICTION
Hivery person who, on account of insanity, has become incapable of controlling bis own interests, can be put under the control of a guardian, who shall administer his affairs with the same effect as he might himself. Suc...
INTERDIOTUM SALVIANUM
Lat. In Roman law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who had pledged them to him for the rent of the land. Inst. 4, 15, 3.
INTERESSE
Lat. Interest. The interest of money; also an interest in lands.
INTEREST
lessee for years acquires in the lands demised to him, before he has actually become possessed of those lands; as distinguished from that property or interest vested in him by the demise, and also reduced into possession...
INTERIM
Interest reipublices suprema hominum testamenta rata haberi. It concerns the state that men’s last wills be held valid, [or allowed to stand.] Co. Litt. 2360. tnade in the mean time, and until something is done.—Int...
INTERMIXTURE OF GOODS. Con
fusion of goods; the confusing or mingling together of goods belonging to different owners in such a way that the property of neither owner can be separately identified or extracted from the mass, See Smith v. Sanborn, 6...
INTERNAL 649
of ‘rivers and harbors, systems of artificial irrigation, and the improvement of water powers; but it does not include the building and maintenance of state institutions. See Guernsey v.
INTERPLEA
1. A plea by which a-per-, son sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from responsi bility. Bennett v. Wol...
INTERPRETARE ET CONCORDARE
' Interpretare et concordare leges legibus, est optimus interpretandi modus.
INTERROGATORIES
enced by other principles than the strictly hermeneutic ones. Id. 60. equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testimony is taken on deposition; a series of formal written questions used in the judicial examination of a ...
INTERRUPTIO
Lat. Interruption. A term used both in the civil and common law of prescription. Calvin.
INTERVENTION
INTESTABILIS: 652
tiff, or demanding something adversely to both of them. Logan v. Greenlaw (C. C.) 12 Fed. 16; Fischer v. Hanna, 8 Colo. App. 471, 47 Pac. 303; Gale v. Frazier, 4 Dak. 196, 30 N. W. 138; Reay v. Butler (Cal.) 7
INTITLE. An old form
of “entitle.” 6 Mod. 304.